It is one of the best parts, I love birding. Lately I've been forgetting some of their names (?), but...yesterday was an unusually beautiful day and we left at three for an afternoon paddle. There is a big old tower on the other side and as we approached an eagle settled down and scared all the cormorants and gulls away. They circled, waiting for the eagle to leave, and the gull started diving at it. I figure the gull had a nest up there. Finally all the birds without a vested interest (the cormorants) (sp?) left and the gull kept bothering a nonchalant eagle. At the island the sea gulls were all spread out, we figured they were nesting. Every so often something would scare them and they would all rise. They didn't mind us. I know in some cases kayakers can scare birds however, and if they are nesting they could leave their egss for bigger prey. We often go at six in the morning and if you do it all the time the migratory birds are really obvious. Andree Hurley - http://www.viewit.com/ On Water Sports, Kayaking Resources - http://www.onwatersports.com -Now selling the Garmin GPS and Accessories- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 08:38:23 PDT
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